Shakespeare for the wiser sort: Solving Shakespeare's riddles in The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1-2 Henry IV, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, and CymbelineManchester University Press, 30 de jul. de 2018 - 208 páginas William Shakespeare’s plays are riddled with passages, scenes and sudden plot twists which baffle and confound the most devoted playgoer and the most attentive commentator. Why, for example, didn’t Hamlet succeed to the throne of Denmark at the instant of his father’s death? (It’s not because the Danish throne was elective.) Why does Chorus in Romeo and Juliet promise his audience ‘two houres trafficke of our stage’ when the play obviously runs almost three hours? How is it that Old Hamlet sent his son to school in (Protestant) Wittenberg but his Ghost was sent to (Catholic) Purgatory? and is there cause-and-effect here? How can Lancelot Gobbo be correct (and he is) when he claims Black Monday (the day after Easter) and Ash Wednesday (the 41st day before Easter) once fell on the same day? And what is a ‘dram of eale’? This engaging and lucid book solves these tantalizing riddles and many others. |
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... early Christians, their geocentric gestalt was borrowed. The centrality of Earth in the universe had been evident to pagans long before the birth of Christ; the Schoolmen took comfort that no less an authority than Aristotle (384–322 BC ) ...
... early Christians, their geocentric gestalt was borrowed. The centrality of Earth in the universe had been evident to pagans long before the birth of Christ; the Schoolmen took comfort that no less an authority than Aristotle (384–322 BC ) ...
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... early stage in his authorial career William Shakespeare stood something apart from the principal organized religions of his era, their dogmas, doctrine, and peculiar passions.18He was remarkably tolerant for his time. Then again, given ...
... early stage in his authorial career William Shakespeare stood something apart from the principal organized religions of his era, their dogmas, doctrine, and peculiar passions.18He was remarkably tolerant for his time. Then again, given ...
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... early Christians set the anniversary of the Annunciation on 25 March.3 Early Christianity was a wonderfully eclectic religion, and first-century Christians adopted all four of Caesar's dates for the principal solar events to commemorate ...
... early Christians set the anniversary of the Annunciation on 25 March.3 Early Christianity was a wonderfully eclectic religion, and first-century Christians adopted all four of Caesar's dates for the principal solar events to commemorate ...
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... of the moon tonight, or the time of sunrise and sunset, or of moonrise and moonset. But this was important information in Shakespeare's age. There were no streetlamps and a new, unrisen, or early setting moon 'The time is out of joint' 25.
... of the moon tonight, or the time of sunrise and sunset, or of moonrise and moonset. But this was important information in Shakespeare's age. There were no streetlamps and a new, unrisen, or early setting moon 'The time is out of joint' 25.
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... early setting moon entailed a night of utter darkness. Walking abroad on a moonless night could be dangerous. When Banquo tells son Fleance that the moon set that night at midnight he is teaching his boy prudence – and the need to stay ...
... early setting moon entailed a night of utter darkness. Walking abroad on a moonless night could be dangerous. When Banquo tells son Fleance that the moon set that night at midnight he is teaching his boy prudence – and the need to stay ...
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Shakespeares timeriddles in Romeo and Juliet solved | 36 |
Did Shakespeare know Bandello? | 55 |
Shakespeare rewrites the Holy Ghost | 77 |
The double time crux in Othello solved | 106 |
The men behind the masks of Falstaff Faulconbridge Lamord and Hamlet | 127 |
Appendix | 166 |
Bibliography | 174 |
Index | 187 |
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